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Researchers at Yale have discovered the chemical triggers for hair growth, which could eventually lead the way to reversing baldness.

Students who are night owls have worse grades in high school and the beginning years of college, research has shown.

Precision-tinted glasses seem to help prevent migraines in people whose pain is triggered by certain visual patterns, new research indicates ...

We're becoming a nation of bum knees, worn-out hips and sore shoulders, and it's not just the Medicare set. Baby boomer bones and joints also are taking a pounding, spawning a boom in operations to fix them. Knee replacement surgeries have doubled over the last decade and more than tripled in the 45-to-64 age group, new research shows. Hips are trending that way, too. And here's a surprise: It's not all due to obesity.

Research shows they tend to get the condition almost seven years earlier than white Americans. The Alzheimer's Assn. calls the situation 'a looming but unrecognized public health crisis.'Arturo Reyes sat quietly as his family talked about traveling to Mexico over the holidays.

Menstrual cramps are often dismissed as a mere nuisance, but new research suggests the monthly misery may be altering women's brains.

People who develop chronic lung disease are more likely to be shorter in height than the general population, Nottingham researchers say.